Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2015, 16:55 +0100 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:10 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote: > > It would be a nice addition to evolution to be able to schedule > > backups at a > > certain time each day. I use SpiderOak for offsite backup. If I > > could have > > evolution do this automatically, I would never lose more than a day's > > e-mail. > > As has been said repeatedly, the "backup" command in Evo is not > intended for periodic backups but for when you need to move your Evo > installation to another machine. For one thing, it requires Evo to be > running (not much use if you want to schedule it at fixed times). For > another, it doesn't do incremental backups but takes a complete > snapshot every time. This is almost never what you want in a production > context. Use a real backup system, of which there are many in Linux (I > use rsnapshot to a local (...)
Hoping not to go too far OT, but what's the advantage over rsync in this context ? _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
